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3D Is a Dumb Gimmick: How Amazon Could Really Change Phones
2014-06-06 21:38:50| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The "Amazon Phone" coming on June 18th could change the mobile-phone industry, but silly 3D interface tricks won't do it.
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#fastfortheclimate: Gimmick or powerful climate change campaign?
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When we think of hunger strikes historical figures tend to come to mind: Gandhi, the suffragettes, Irish republican Bobby Sands. But what would it look like if we transplanted this established form of protest into the digital age? The recent fast for the climate campaign may give us a starting point. The campaign has drawn its inspiration from Philippines climate change commissioner Yeb Sano's 13-day hunger strike at the post-Typhoon Haiyan's COP19. This individual protest has grown into an active...
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GPS - Gimmick or essential in a modern Smartphone?
2013-10-26 20:56:32| Wireless - Topix.net
This weekend I've finally gotten round to finish off writing up my review of the ThL W8s , you can click here to read my initial impressions and the actual review should go live on Monday.
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Apple's 64-bit A7 is no gimmick
2013-09-24 20:19:02| InfoWorld: Top News
When Apple announced the iPhone 5s would be powered by a new 64-bit processor, the A7, many responded with a shrug. Conventional wisdom had it that 64-bitness in a mobile processor had no particular advantage.
Google's Gag Motion Is Mainly a PR Gimmick
2013-06-20 18:53:56| TechNewsWorld
Google is asking the secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to let it disclose information about its orders. Such disclosures would be made without violating FISA or the Court's rules of procedure, Google said. Google's petition to the FISA Court follows revelations that it and other high-tech companies cooperated with the National Security Agency's controversial PRISM program.